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…from Beth Patterson and her Irish Bouzouki. It’s possible I may be a little bit in love. Just a little bit. Temporarily. ________ * – for those of you who might be confused by the quotes, please click here for an explanation.

Oh look! A new Bret Alexander/Badlees tune. Many of you know exactly how big a deal this is for me. The rest of you? Rest assured that it’s a very big deal.

Because hey, why not – tunes! “Psycho (live)”- Elvis Costello & the Attractions “Disc Wars” – Daft Punk “Bring Me Li’l Water Silvy (live)” – The Wailin’ Jennys “July, July!” – The Decembrists “Which Describes How You’re Feeling” – They Might Be Giants “52 Girls” – The B-52’s “Elanor Rigby” – The Beatles “Why Do […]

Welcome, dear readers, to another edition of “increasingly older man points out how today’s pop music sounds quite a lot like the stuff of his youth”. Which, I guess, is better than “old man shouts at clouds about how pop music sucks today compared to when he was a kid, not realizing that he’s really […]

So, yeah. I used to do this every week, then I kind of stopped. Not saying I’ll actually get back to doing it regularly, but I’m doing it today. Ten tunes, at random from the music folder on my laptop hard drive (which says I have over 13k songs in it right now; though that […]

Last week, my 13 year old daughter and I were talking a bit about what “the kids these days” are listening to. I’m genuinely curious about these things, having several of my own kids these days, and interacting with others on a regular basis. I also desperately don’t want to become old and totally detached […]

Not feeling particularly profound today, but I thought since I was getting back into the routine everywhere else, I might as well do it here by posting something. The routine was disrupted last week, as I was off for a week. I needed some time, and some things needed done. Didn’t get quite as much […]

Witness: The trailer to the 2012 movie verion of the musical Les Miserables: I must say, this looks right, and sounds pretty good, thankfully. The cast is theoretically very good, and the fact that director Tom Hooper, I’ve read, insisted that the whole thing be done with live vocals rather than lip synching to studio […]

So, this past weekend was Balticon. I was there. In dramatic contrast to the last 48 hours or so, I mostly had a pretty good time, basking in the communal glow of geekdom (or not…the communal “glow” can occasionally be described as more of a “funk” or “stench”, and is not particularly pleasant to bask […]